“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com
“She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com